dougdeacon
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| TriPlanar Tips Correction, it was Lew who mentioned Loktite. Sorry! | |
| TriPlanar Tips Haven't checked back here in a while and missed the micro-burst of activity back in January. Thanks to 1kitch and Harrylime6 for reviving this thread. Glad it's still proving helpful/useful to new TriPlanar users.If some set of threads is very loo... | |
| How much is this worth? 1. List it for auction here or on ebay with no reserve 2. Describe the condition as "unknown"3. Its worth will be defined by the market (Econ 101)4. Send me 10% as a consulting fee | |
| Moving coil with a bit less leading edge Frogman,Thanks for clarifying. You said it simply and clearly, and without any annoying overshoot/ringing on the leading edge. ;)Opus88,I didn't know what halls you frequent, so thanks for clarifying. I haven't been to the Musikverein or Concertge... | |
| Moving coil with a bit less leading edge >>> ...the sounds I most frequently hear at live orchestral concerts rarely display the kind of clean, tight contours quite a few audiophiles prefer... If your experience of live orchestral music is that leading edges are rounded or that ... | |
| Turntable L/R Balance Yes, but it was weird that the old inteconnects worked fine when hooked up one way but not the other.Some magical substance must be involved... | |
| Moving coil with a bit less leading edge Opus,John's comments on the ZYX line are spot on. With regard to "smoothing":Gold coils > silver coilsSilver coils > copper coilsIt's not unexpected because it has nothing to do with conductivity, it's a function of inertia. Gold is massier ... | |
| Soundsmith Straingauge SG-200 cartridge system ...the comments about lack of harmonics implies technical inaccuracy in so far as tracing what is in the groove. That cannot be inferred from my comments and it's demonstrably untrue: a cartridge is involved in more than just groove-tracing. Disto... | |
| Soundsmith Straingauge SG-200 cartridge system Thanks, Raul. Our ears/priorities certainly do differ in some ways, always have, but we seem to have reached similar conclusions about the Strain Gauge (I assume you meant SG, not SS?). You may be perfectly right that it displays other behaviors b... | |
| Audio Desk Record Cleaner-Anyone buy one yet Tbg, Thanks for the recommendation. I'm aware of the AD's build and operating principles. I discussed them in detail with the US importer and the German designer long before the machine arrived on these shores. Its advantages of speed, quiet and c... | |
| Audio Desk Record Cleaner-Anyone buy one yet anyone who is putting enough passion and effort in cleaning Lps to be involved in this thread has already got clean records.who has the cleanest?:-)Not me! I've got about 2500 still awaiting their first cleaning. Any volunteers? :-D | |
| Soundsmith Straingauge SG-200 cartridge system I've never heard a Decca London Ref, sorry. The original SG I heard (at RMAF a few years ago) had oodles of dynamics, a full frequency range, speed, weight, heft, etc. Everything it did it did well and nothing was distorted. However, it lost or se... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine - Loricraft PRC-3 vs. 4? Hey Dan, congrats! Now you can take 45 minutes to clean an LP like the rest of us audio-nuts.Just joshin' folks. Dan has seen my PRC3 in action and knows what he's getting. I re-cleaned an LP of his once during dinner and the improvement was start... | |
| Soundsmith Straingauge SG-200 cartridge system Doug, I get the impression you don't think the Straingauge will be as 'fleshed out' as the Orpheus, and yet Arran states it isn't tonally thin in any way.Arran didn't state that he's heard the Orpheus. There's no basis for comparing his comment to... | |
| Audio Desk Record Cleaner-Anyone buy one yet Dhcod,Thanks for your interest. What my partner and I get for our (considerable) trouble is a groove that (to our ears) is as free of contaminants as possible. I'll describe our sonic priorities and then our standards for "clean", which differ fro... |